Dr. Bhanu is the Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cooperative Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of California at Riverside. Dr. Bhanu is the first faculty hired in the Bourns College of Engineering. Dr. Bhanu is the founding Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCR and served as its first Chair (1991-94). He is the founding Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) at UCR. He is also the Director of Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) at UCR. Prior to joining UCR, Dr. Bhanu was a Senior Honeywell Fellow at Honeywell Inc. Dr. Bhanu has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, and has worked with Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, INRIA-France and IBM San Jose Research Laboratory. Dr. Bhanu has been the principal investigator of various programs from DARPA, NASA, NSF, AFOSR, ARO and other agencies and industries in the areas of object and target recognition, autonomous navigation, learning and vision, video networks, image understanding, image and video databases and machine vision applications. Dr. Bhanu has been the guest editor/associate editor of many journals including IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions Systems, Man and Cybernetics and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision and the International Journal of Machine Vision and Applications. Dr. Bhanu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Dr. Bhanu is a member of ACM and AAAI. Dr. Bhanu was the General Chair for the first IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (Palm Springs, CA, 1992), Chair for the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, (Monterey, CA, 1994), and General Chair for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (San Francisco, CA, 1996). Dr. Bhanu received the S.M. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California and the M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine.